Hello Winter!!

Well I haven't been much in the blogging mood lately. Not sure why, but I suppose I need to get a little better at it. The holidays always bring such a mixed reaction to me because my own parents are in the middle of a divorce right now. I don't usually talk much about my extended family's personal issues so as not to offend anyone, but it's time to get some of this off of my chest I suppose. They've been split up for over a year now and last year's holidays were bad enough as it was trying to please everyone and see both of my parents. It would make things a lot easier if my dad seemed to care much... but he doesn't. He's been seeing a lady that was a good friend of my mom's for a while now and to make matters worse both my dad and this lady are still married... great I know right?... On top of that, since my parents have split up I've barely seen my dad but about once a month, if that, and it's usually for some sort of family function or another like a birthday, father's day, etc. If it weren't for that I seriously doubt that we would even see him that much. It doesn't bother me quite as much that I don't see my dad as much because I have my own family now, but it really bothers me because I have a younger brother who's 16 that hardly sees my dad as well.

But... to make matters worse he's spending plenty of time with his new "girlfriend" and her daughters. How do I know that??? Well my dad lives in Spokane and we all know he's spending his time with somebody- I mean come on no one works THAT much. Plus when he called on thanksgiving I could hear kids in the background... So now comes the dreaded holidays when everyone's supposed to put on a happy face and see each other. My dad's family in particular has always been good at always having family get togethers during the holidays and we'll see how awkward this one is...

Hannah is 6 months old now!!! I can't believe it's been that long already since she was born. She rolls, laughs, smiles a lot, grabs and holds things and got her first tooth almost a week ago... so she's been biting me... A LOT!!! And it hurts!!! Hailey wasn't nearly this bad. I've been trying some rice cereal, but she doesn't seem to like it much so I added some baby food fruit to it and she still doesn't like it much. Here's a few more updated pics of her...

And then Tim and I both got to speak in our new ward a week and a half ago. Of course they nabbed us right away for talks, lol. I really didn't mind doing it though- my talk was easy- it was on our recent temple trip. And then Tim got called as the 1st counselor in the Young Men's so my Wed night's are now stuck with the kids- I say that like it's a bad thing, but I promise I don't feel that way. I'm excited that Tim has a new calling and I support him 100% in it. They have yet to give me a calling and I'm really anticipating it because I'd like to start getting to know people a little better in our new ward. Things have been really awkward so far... And I really miss my friends from the lh ward!!! Though I've been able to see quite a few people I still miss you all lots and lots!!

Oh and to end with a laugh... I went shopping by myself on Black Friday while Tim stayed at home with the girls. The roads were terrible... but I scored some good deals so it was worth it! I went to wally world, kohls, fred meyer, game stop, and then shopko. By far my best gift was the final fantasy 13 game that I secretly bought for Tim... I even went as far as putting it on the card that he doesn't check and hiding it in the car. Well stupid me let it get stolen. How on earth did I manage that one you might ask?!! Stupid me forgot to lock the car one night when we had massive amounts of snow. Tim and I were out shoveling and removing snow from the cars when I saw the passenger door a little open. I yelled "Ahh crap!!" and told Tim that the car had been broken into. Of course he asked what had been taken and I had to tell him about his surprise... Bad me I know and I felt really bad. Turns out that Tim's scriptures got taken too because the elders from our ward showed up at the door yesterday to return them. But the kicker is that we didn't even realize they were gone. I know, bad, bad, bad again, but we've been using mine in the house and didn't even think about his. Somehow they turned up at another member's house?? So I called that lady to thank her and she had no clue how they turned up as well except for her daughter in law said that they were on their porch?... well that's a strange story I know, but oh well at least we have them back!!